Ben Kissel Politics

Today on Ben Kissel Politics, we take a stroll—literally—into some of the weirdest and most troubling policy moves of the week.🇨🇳 First up: In China, AI is now being used to classify people as crimi...

12 Aug 202552min

Today on Ben Kissel Politics, the headlines read like a political Mad Lib gone wrong.📰 First up, Donald Trump addresses the ever-growing Epstein conspiracy theories — and calls them “bullshit.” Which...

8 Aug 202558min

Today on Ben Kissel Politics, we take you on a journey through America's weirdest political decisions, starting with… Kristi Noem, who’s back in the news and somehow still doing everything except help...

5 Aug 20251h 1min

Today on Ben Kissel Politics, it’s a fever dream of geopolitical denial and scripted entrances.First, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu takes a bold stand… against reality. He claims there’s no starvation hap...

4 Aug 202550min

In this jam-packed episode of Ben Kissel Politics, we redraw the lines—political and moral.🗺️ First up, we dive into voter redistricting. Because what better way to honor democracy than by carving up...

4 Aug 202559min

This week on Ben Kissel Politics, it’s man vs. machine... or maybe man apologizing to machine.🤖 Tech CEOs—who once promised us flying cars and smarter phones—are now nervously biting their fingers as...

26 Jul 202556min

This week on Ben Kissel Politics, we flush away real issues to examine the biggest distractions in Washington's porcelain circus such as bathroom monitors in the military and renaming the Kennedy Cent...

23 Jul 202546min

Ben dives into a wild week in American politics: Trump keeps wondering why anyone cares about Epstein, Texas GOP leaders try to draw democracy out of the state entirely, and right-wing media personali...

18 Jul 202558min